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The Layar Augmented Reality Browser apps for the iPhone and Android provide virtual 3D information overlays on top of the real world, as seen from the camera lens of your mobile device. Today the company introduced a content store so that consumers c...

Augmented reality software-maker Layar announced today that it has struck a global distribution partnership with "one of the top 3 mobile handset manufacturers." Previously Layar was only available through app stores on select high-end smartphone pla...

It's a big news day in the augmented reality department, with Urbanspoon just launching its iPhone AR feature earlier and now this. Seminal AR app Layar has been available for Google's Android platform, and today sees its free launch for the iPhone. ...

Remember Layar and their augmented reality app for Android devices? It uses your phone's camera to display a layer of real time meta data on top of the physical world around you. Until now, that reality was just a bunch of 2D tags, but with Layar3D i...

There's something very appealing (especially if you're a tech geek) about the idea of augmented reality. Being able to see the invisible meta data in the physical real world around you feels like something from a sci-fi novel, and with the help of an...

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